Color Of Water

Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Walt Walker

TYLin

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Victor Galvan

Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience

Roland Jones

CIS

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Olga Cano

HUD

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Benu Amun Ra

S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Esteban Ortiz

The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Afia Zakiya

Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Paula Buchanan

National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Carolan Sonderegger

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About Us

The Color of Water Initiative was created by the Water Hub to build voice and visibility for people of color in the water movement. Our goal is to connect reporters with a more diverse set of experts, and build capacity for these experts to elevate the stories of their communities, which have often been left out of conversations around water. 

 

From water access and drought response in the West to lead pipes and PFAS pollution in the Great Lakes to recurring flooding and water infrastructure failures in the South, Color of Water members have deep expertise and first-hand experience on water challenges and solutions all across the country.


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